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Love and honor. They are the two great things, and now they__e dimmed and blighted. Today, love is just sex and sentimentality. Love is really a recognition of truth, a recognition of another person__ integrity and truth in a way that is compatible with _ that makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other. That__ what love is. It__ a recognition of singularity_ And love is giving and giving and giving _ not looking for any return. Until you do that, you can__ love.
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Love and honor. They are the two great things, and now they__e dimmed and blighted. Today, love is just sex and sentimentality. Love is really a recognition of truth, a recognition of another person__ integrity and truth in a way that is compatible with _ that makes both of you light up when you recognize the quality in the other. That__ what love is. It__ a recognition of singularity_ And love is giving and giving and giving _ not looking for any return. Until you do that, you can__ love.
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